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Lot 347
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
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Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$200 -
300
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$195
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Lot Description
SALINGER, J.D. (1919-2010). Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1959.
8vo. Original dark gray cloth; dust jacket (light wear to spine ends).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE without the dedication page. Salinger's novellas were first published in The New Yorker. The present edition was the first appearance of either novella in book form, which was the third best-selling novel in 1963 according to Publishers Weekly.
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